Post 8: ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHALLENGES

Hi everyone, in this last post I'm gonna tell you about my experience learning English at university :-)

Actually this semester was the only one I ever had in my four years at university and it was a whole new experience... since 2017, my last year in High school I haven't had english classes so I really forgot a little how it was like. 
Although I couldn't connect to most of the classes, when I did it, it was fun, and it made me realize that I it's difficult to me pronounce correctly, so the activities helped me with that and too listen to my teacher and my classmates.

The use of blogs was very useful and entertaining, I like to write and talk about things, this method helped me to try expand my vocabulary and thus don't repeat many words. I too liked a lot reading the blogs of my classmates, learn about what they like, what are their interests and realize the things we have in common. But one thing I liked the most was reading the blogs of the classmates that study another careers and see what are the things they work on, like in the posts of future jobs or postgraduate studies! It was very intersting!

As I wrote before an aspect I have to improve is my pronunciation... I think I could work on it watching series or movies in english with english subtitles, so I could see how to write and pronnunciate  the words and sentences properly... 

Nowadays I use english in my everyday activities, to write and read in social networks, I follow on Twitter and Instagram some artist from another countries so they comunicate in english with their international followers. I too listen to it watching series, now I'm watching Hannibal so I'm trying what I just wrote about improving pronnunciation and too, to watch the serie without subtitles and see how much I can understand of what they talk about :-) I too like to translate lyrics from songs, or for example, read the english translations of lyrics in korean and translate them to spanish, so I can learn different expressions and understand them better.

Thank you for reading and for this class!! 

Greetings! <3

Post 7: Changes to my study programme

Hello, how are you? In this Post I'm gonna talk about Changes to my study programme.

Personally I think that the subjects of Visual arts career is good, although a few years ago it changed so the students from 2020 onwards have a different study programme, the one that I'm studying is quite complete, letting us experiment different areas of visual arts and thus be more versatile… and too the theoric classes like seminars we have in third and fourth year are contingents to the current context of the arts what helps us to position ourselves and our works in the academic world, so about that I would like that we were thaught about how to use the arts in social issues... like to put the art in service of society and not just to learn how to enter in the academic world of expositions and museums.

The teaching methods are good, from day one we are thaught to be disciplined, because the methods of arts can be only learnt with constancy and practice… now it’s our job as students to doing that haha

Actually I'm not a person who does alot of co-curricular activities precisely due how demanding it's the career in terms of timing and energy, to learn how to do art is a full time job I think... and too because of personal issues, like responsibilities with my family and house... I think that the co-curricular activities that the university grants are pretty good and varied, but I dedicate my extra time to work a part-time job and attend to those personal issues.

About the length of studies I guess it's ok, eight semesters plus the degree or the three semesters of pedagogy is a quite complete studying time.

The faculty infrastructure is so bad... I mean yes we can still work in it, with workshops and its machines and tools that we can't afford in our houses but the fact that half of them doesn't work properly (or doesn't function at all) is just sad, plus this problem got worse because of the quarantine and the abandonment of the campus. 

I think the best the Art Faculty could do -and the University- is to build another Faculty with new workshops and that contains all art careers, because the separation of them is too a big issue in the field of arts.

Sorry for extending too much and thanks for reading :-)

Post 6: Postgraduate studies

Hello everyone, how are you? 

In the future  I'd like to study an Art therapy postgraduate.

I'm interested in that area because combining psychology and art seems very remarkable to me. When I was a teenager I wanted to be a psychologist or psychiatrist,and also I studied social work for a year before switching to Visual arts, and to this day I'm very interested in mental health, mental illness, human behaviour and social labour. Along with that, to know how to express ourselves through art, improve mental health, and to guide people in that, creating community sounds like something I would really enjoy doing, especially with kids or teenagers.

I was looking at the Postgraduate in Art Therapy of the Faculty of Arts of the University and the subjects I'd like the most to study are General Psychology and Evaluation of Visual Expressions.

I haven't investigated other postgraduates more than the one I just talked about, but I would rather study here in Chile because of the money. To study here is expensive but I guess that doing it in another country could be more expensive and difficult... I really don't know, I have to investigate more.

I'd like to do a part-time course , face-to-face, because I think it's necessary to practice, like learn the activities and methods not only in theory but in practice and to be able to go to work with people.

Anyway I think I should start to take part in associations as a volunteer or something like that to gain experience. 

Thanks for reading :-)

Post 5: My future job

Hello, today I'm gonna tell you about my "dream job"

When I was a child I dreamed to be an artist and dedicate to illustrate children's stories, like fairytales!  And now I'm studying Visual Arts but I'm not specializing in drawing, illustration or painting, moreover just this year I started to work harder on my drawing.
However following that line  I'd like to work building toys, speciffically miniature scenarios made with wood or paper , like very small rooms or even houses, with tiny furniture, I think I could create scenarios from fairytales like the gingerbread house where lives the witch from Hansel & Gretel !

It would be an indoor job, but I'd like to work in a big workshop with huge windows so the sun could enter and thus not use artificial light during day, and also the air would be renewed, which is important when working with painting. I can imagine it with walls painted in pastel colors like baby blue and a lot of plants!

I think it could be uncomfortable to travel with all the materials and tools (although it's something I usually do), but I think It could be intersting and fun to do it, visit different places and perhaps make miniatures of those places where I'll stay!

About the salary, that type of work is expensive, specially due to the time invested on it, so I think if worked freelance I would sell it expensive in order to the complexity of the pieces. I really don't know if I could work on something like this on a companny or Toy store, but if it was the case I wouldn't accept a low salary... although I know it's so difficult to find a job like that 😓

I'm thinking of taking the speciallization on Photography ! Maybe it could sound like it don't have a lot in common with what I'm writing about but this year I started to experiment scale change photographs with little spaces that I have built, mini rooms with old toys that I have kept since my childhood that appear to be life-size! I'll post a couple of thos photos!

Thanks for reading <3

Post 4: A photograph I like

Hello, how are you?

It was a little difficult to decide what photography to post but finally choose this one: 

I took it in my lasts vacations, back in January 2020. I was at the beach in Navidad with my mother, grandmother and little sisters.

The picture shows a view from the beach, it appears random people that was in there, the guardhouse of the lifeguard, and focuss mostly in the lines that causes the wind in the sand that in the sea. 

I find so beautiful those lines, they made me think it was like draws made by the wind or stretch marks.

I like a lot the colours in the photo, they are like grayish because although it was summer the days we stayed in there were cloudy.

I too like it because it reminds me of the pre-pandemic life. 2019 was a really hard year for me and my mental health, and I started to be more mental stable and relaxed at the end of that year. At the time I took this photo I was feeling better so it make me feels a little nostalgic and reminds me that life is so unpredictable but that everything goes and change. 

Writing this, looking at the picture and thinking about those days made me remember the lyrics from the song 'Blue & Gray' from BTS, specifically the first verse: 

 

Where's my angel?

The end of a tiring day

Someone come and save me, please

Is overshadowed by a sigh

I guess everyone's happy

Can you look at me? 'Cause I'm blue and gray

The tears in the mirror mean 

My colors hid in the smile, blue and gray

I think I went a little emotional, thanks for reading!

Post 3: my favourite movie

 Hello everyone!

I always find it difficult to choose my favourite things like food, songs, books, series or movies and this time was not the exception 😬 but I think that definitely one of my favourites movies is Akira.

Akira is a Sci-fi Japanese animation movie from 1988, it's 33 years old! Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, and based on his homonymus Manga. It last 2 horus and 4 minutes, although is made entirely by hand it has beautiful and really amazing fluent movements,  the level of detail is incredible!! It was made with 160.000 animation celluloids.

Set in a Post-apocalyptic reality in a city called Neo-Tokyo, the year is 2019, the story revolves around two friends: Tetsuo Shima and Shotaro Kaneda, orphaned teens who dedicate their time to roaming the streets with their motorcyle gangs but one day Tetsuo has an accident and is involved in an secret experiment of a military project that leads him to develop a HUGE psychic power.

In summary, it's about what happens when power falls into the "wrong hands", in this case the hands of a child resentful of society who has been violated all his life.
Although I think we can discuss how dangerous could be if that power was managed by the fascist government or the militar forces but I'm not going to delve into that 👀...

The first time I saw it was in the Summer of 2017, I was 17 years old and I remember the sadness I felt as the film progressed and how Tetsuo becomes a real monster, but it too made me reflect about how systematic violence leads people to desire absolute destruction of everything. 

It really blew my mind, I even wrote an essay about it in my last year in High school!! 😅

It's really a piece of art and I think to this point a cult film 😂 Have you seen it? 

Post 2: A heartwarming concert :-)

Hello everyone, today I want to tell you about a concert that lives in my heart... Actually isn’t one that I was able to go since it was Online due to the pandemic, but it was important to me: BTS's MUSTER SOWOOZOO 2021.
BTS -Acronym for Bangtan Soyeodan or Bulletproof Boys scouts 😅- is a South korean boyband conformed by seven young males and one of the biggest acts in contemporary pop music. The band debuted in 2013 and since then they have had an organic growth, conquering different music charts with a fanbase that every year grows more, until becoming nominated to Grammy Awards this year. "Muster" is an annual event in celebration of the band's anniversary, and "SOWOZOO" is the romanization of the korean word "소우주" wish means "Mikrokosmos".

The event was a 2 days concert, the 13th and 14th of June, at 6:30 PM Korean hour... here in Chile was at 5:30 AM so I barely sleep that weekend but It was totally worth it!! Me and my friends watch it from a Streaming platform and commented it on Social networks, among others fans. It may sound a little strange since it was a virtual experience, but the atmosphere and the feeling was thrilling. Last and this year have been really energy draining, but those days felt like a recharging, to see them perform full of energy and excitement, and to see the reaction of another fans made me really happy. Like to have this sense of  belonging, with a lot of people convocated by such a beautiful and encouraging discourse like that BTS hold. And well, it's too one of my favourite moments because they performed this song called “Chicken Noodle Soup” that is a solo Track from their rapper and main dancer J-Hope featuring the reggaeton singer Becky G that has a verse in Spanish so it was amazing to see them sing in my natal langueague jaja and because that song was released when I became a fan of them, 2 years since that! 

A very good and heart warming memory :-)

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